School of Management
Extension Number: 318 
Office Number: E-318

Brief Profile
Muhammad Salman Bilal (MSB), has more than two decades of proven engineering management and consultancy experience in the high-end Petroleum, E&P, Petrochemical, Automation & Manufacturing industries.
As SME/Consultant, MSB has developed artefacts and feasibility for O&G KSP & FORED^® in the field of Advanced Project Management, for their clients; Korean Gas (KOGAS^®) & British Petroleum (BP^®) serving the South Korean Oil & Gas industry.
MSB consulted OGKSP^® for Curriculum Development for developing global Project Management Academy for McDERMOTT^® International to cater for multilingual courses on Project Management domain following APM^® protocols & PMI^® USA standards.
MSB has got similar mentoring/facilitating and training experiences for different diversified organizations: FFC^®, e-Foods^® (Engro Foods), TOTAL^®, NESPAK^®, PTCL^®, Schlumberger NeXT^®, ARAMCO^®, OGDCL^®, GOP, Honda^®, Descon^®, ARAMCO^®, etc.
MSB as International Mobile Engineering Manager with Schlumberger^®-OFS Oil Field Services,
served in France, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, Qatar and Pakistan for RASGAS^® (Exxon-Mobil® & Qatar Petroleum),
SaudiAramco^®, Shell^®, Petronas^®,ENI^®, OGDCL^®, PPL^®, OMV^®, BP^® & OPI^®, etc.
Before Schlumberger®-OFS, he was serving as Instrument, Control and Electrical Engineering Manager with Engro^® Chemicals Ltd. (Formerly Exxon®, USA) and streamlined SCADA^® projects including Rockwell^® Automation, Elsag Bailey^®, Bentley Nevada^®, GE^®, Siemens^®, Allen Bradley^®, Maximo^® CMMS, etc. While being at Engro Chemicals Pakistan Limited, he was privileged to be part of Engro Vision 2002-2007 which led to Engro’s diversity into Foods Business.
His field-experience embodies Productivity and Operational Sustainability through Automation (Instrumentation & Control), Construction Projects (EPC) and Energy (Oil & Gas) that correspond directly to his subjects of teaching at School of Management (SOM).

Education

• B.Sc. Electrical Engineering (Specialisation in Electronics & tele-communication)
• M.Sc. Electrical Engineering (Specialisation in Power Electronics)
• M.Sc. (M.Phil.) Engineering Management (Specialisation in Risk Management)

Research and publications (along with the publication link)
FIELD-oriented Research & Development (Operations Specialisation Requirement)

Being Subject Matter Expert (SME) in the field of Project Management, Muhammad Salman Bilal (MSB) has collaborated with PMI® USA for Research & Development initiatives spanning over a decade now.

1. Global master-batch-member to pioneer PMI-PBA®(Business Analysis) Credential ~ 2014
2. Content Reviewer (SME®) for Practice Standard of Requirements by PMI®USA ~ 2016
3. Among only four individuals worldwide having achieved all PMI®USA credential ~ 2015-16
4. Value Improvement Practitioner (VIP®) Workshop Facilitator with ARAMCO®in Project Risk Management ~ 2019 to-date
5. NEXT Schlumberger®Instructor (KLTC®: Kuala Lumpur Training Center) Advanced Project Management ~ 2019 to-date
6. ATP®: Authorized Training Partner Instructor with Premier ATP®(4804) ~ 2020 to-date
7. SME/Author (Volunteer) to PMI®USA exam prep study material (Assumptions & Constraints Analysis) ~ 2022
8. Reviewer Author (Volunteer) to PMI®USA exam prep study material (PMI-RMP Risk Management) ~ 2022
9. Global Research Team-Member to initiate PMI®USA first ever Micro-credential AHP-Pro® (Agile Hybrid Pro) ~ 2020-21
10. Pioneered Credential DASSM®(Disciplined Agile Senior SCRUM Master) in Pakistan ~ 2021
11. Pioneered Micro-credential VSM®(Value Stream Management) in Pakistan ~ 2022
12. Pioneered Micro-credential OT:O® (Organizational Transformation: Orchestration) in Pakistan ~ 2023
13. MSB has been titled as Project Management Institute (PMI® USA) Approved Instructor of Premier ATP (Authorized Training Partner) Instructor for the globally acknowledged credentials PMP®, DASM® & DASSM. In addition to pioneering ATP in Pakistan.
14. MSB was among the pioneer-batch-member of global research-group who successfully initiated PMI-PBA® (Business Analysis in 2014) & Micro- credentials (AHPP®: Agile Hybrid Project Pro in 2021. Also, he has pioneered micro-credentials of Value Stream Management (2022) & Organizational Transformation: Orchestration (2023), in the country.

He is Content Reviewer as Subject Matter Expert (SME) for PMI® USA Global Standard on “Requirements Management; A Practice Guide” (2016) PMI® Publications Press, USA. MSB is also the authorized Workshop Facilitator with ARAMCO in domain of Project Risk Management. He is formally accredited with Project Management Institute PMI® USA as Portfolio Manager (PfMP®), Program Manager (PgMP®), Project Manager (PMP®), Risk Manager (PMI-RMP®), Scheduling Professional (PMI-SP®), Professional Business Analyst (PMI-PBA®), Agile Practitioner (PMI-ACP®), Disciplined Agile Senior SCRUM Master (DASSM®), Agile Hybrid Project Pro (AHPP®), Value Stream Manager (VSM®), Organizational Transformation: Orchestration (OT:O®) along with American Society for Quality ASQ® USA as Six Sigma Expert (ASQ-CSSGB®)